It diverts the attention of the uninitiate.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to initiate major social reforms. ,to initiate a constitutional amendment.    From Dictionary.com. 

"But there is danger for the uninitiate in Phaze!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Adept]

For the uninitiate that is the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Combined B.A. / J.D. Programs] Reference

"I certainly do not blame you for being impatient with the uninitiate," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centaur Aisle]

The well-informed concert-goer begins to appreciate beauties hidden to the uninitiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

This is one of the most valuable of the sacred writings, yet the uninitiate could not possibly make good use of it without help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destiny Narrowly Avoided] Reference

It is feared that utterance of the password by an uninitiate will enrage the gods, and cause sea levels to rise up and engulf the magic rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Password Protected Sites: SOAP and Trolls « Climate Audit] Reference

It is also believed that utterance of the SO&P password by one of the uninitiate will cause drought, pestilence, scorching heat and Ice Ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Password Protected Sites: SOAP and Trolls « Climate Audit] Reference

Now to help us try to understand exactly why that is, can you explain first of all what exactly is Ramadan, if you were to explain that to an uninitiate like myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2001] Reference

The uninitiate gravitates toward the author, the author toward the editor or publisher, the publisher toward the reviewer, and the reviewer, in desperation, toward another drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Will You Be Available For Me to Pick Up My Hat? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

Happy is he among men upon earth who has seen these mysteries; but he who is uninitiate and who has no part in them, never has lot of like good things once he is dead, down in the darkness and gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

Again, for the uninitiate, Dance Dance Revolution is a game where you have a mat with arrows on it and you jump around on the mat, tapping the arrows with your feet in response to arrows that appear on the screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thou Hast Turned My Dancing Into Mourning -- First encounters with Dance Dance Revolution] Reference

If you take it, you will thenceforth be addressed as "Herr Doktor"; if you do not take it, you will keep on printing on your visiting card "Kandidat Philosophie" all the rest of your lifetime, and be addressed by the uninitiate as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

It was evidently no place to seduce the uninitiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference

The uninitiate can hardly realise how impressive is the ceremonial there enacted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Max Beerbohm] Reference

The latter even is exciting for a uninitiate like me,, as I can just press "electro" and listen in awe.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheNextWeb.com] Reference

Whether it was a dark resentment against the uninitiate for peeping into their masonic magnificence, he could not quite conjecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference

Whoso has passed the system, then, is to their minds one of a close corporation, of a select and intellectual few, and entitled to pose before the uninitiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference

Happy is he among deathly men who hath beheld these things! and he that is uninitiate, and hath no lot in them, hath never equal lot in death beneath the murky gloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological] Reference

The usual air of slightly annoyed surprise crept over the faces of the company at the announcement, so that to the uninitiate it would have seemed that no one was hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sins of Séverac Bablon] Reference

Something which shall answer for it, to the uninitiate, may be produced by merely casting natural objects; and there is a great deal that is called sculpture which scarcely aims at anything more than the production, by a more difficult method, of something like a plaster cast from nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects] Reference

The aftermath reactions of naive and ill-prepared investors shouldn't have the effect of demanding more government regulation and oversight but rather to warn the uninitiate to develop a sound method of judging the risks and probabilities of an investment other than by "the seat of your pants.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews] Reference

Nor would this inference be wrong: for, as a matter of fact, the poet, immediately upon the publication of "Paracelsus," determined to devote himself to poetic work which should have so direct a contact with actual life that its appeal should reach even to the most uninitiate in the mysteries and delights of verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

Nor would this inference be wrong: for, as a matter of fact, the poet, immediately upon the publication of “Paracelsus,” determined to devote himself to poetic work which should have so direct a contact with actual life that its appeal should reach even to the most uninitiate in the mysteries and delights of verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning]

Master's passion for brightness; and perfumes, as well, with which his garments -- always of oriental splendor -- were literally saturated; phials of rose emptied at random, filling the neighborhood with the fragrance of a fabulous garden, strong enough to overcome the hardiest uninitiate, but strangely exciting to that Prodigy in his struggle with the Unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference

I saw the idea; for one thing no egg was ever a quarter so full of meat as the Martian existence of incomprehensible thrills, to heighten the effect of which Mr. BURROUGHS has invented what amounts to a new language, with a glossary of its own, thus appealing to a well-known instinct of boyhood, but rendering the whole business of a more than Meredithian obscurity to the uninitiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920] Reference

I’m certainly glad that someone is putting these clues together for the uninitiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [sign o’ the times; the time at the end of all things, when the Great Old Ones will return and clear off the Earth, to gibber in madness and ecstasy forever « raincoaster] Reference

Do you know what happens to those uninitiate who learn that secret? to those wretched men, the initiate who reveal it? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference

Do you know what happens to those uninitiate who learn that secret? to those wretched men, the initiate who reveal it?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

Each uninitiate to the halls of government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politician in Private Society] Reference

"The dead," answered Hilda, "will not reveal themselves to eyes uninitiate save at their own will, uncompelled by charm and rune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

It is the fear of the uninitiate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Gods] Reference

"Phaze be dangerous to the uninitiate!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Adept]